The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-22
NO.32.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Erie railway train ut Passaic, N. j.
"A Chinese laundryman In San Die
go, Cal, has an advertisement in
local paper which has been summing for
fifteen years.
A New York dentist has pulled
SOC, coo teeth. Think of the man snerve.
Or, rather, think of the 100000 nerves
of his victims!
-Tramps will not suffer in the least
by the provision in the Interstate Com
merce bill cutting off free passes.
Bumper passage can be had at the
old rates.
Some of the salaries Of the Ameri-
can Opera Company were as follows:
Theodore Thomas, $1,000 per week;
Manager Locke, $500 per week; M. M.
Whitney, 5000 per week, and Candidus
S5, 900 per month.
"A New York physician has in
formed five o'clock tea parties that
their brass teapots generate q very
poisonous substance, and society has
concluded to limit their use of brass to
door-knoekers and other things.
in collection of plant-eating
beetles made in Ceylon in 1881 and
1882, about one hundred and fifty new
species have been found by an English
entomologist to whom the insects were
submitted for study and description
~ 7. Ledger.
The prohibition amendment which
passed the West Virginia Legislature
will be submitted to the voters of the
State at the next general election, in
1888. 1t only requires a majority of
the votes cast to make it operative and
a part of the constitution.
The stingray is the natural enemy
of San Francisco oysters. The fish has
a powerful pair of jaws with which he
considers it no trick whatever to smash
the shell of an oyster into powder, after
which he sucks the meat into his stom-
ach and discards the rocky debris.
The original charter of Philadel-
phia as a city, antedating by ten years
the one now hanging in Independence
Hall, which was supposed to be the
first, has been brought to light. 1t is
dated 1891. and was held by a family,
who supposed it was simply an old
title deed.
William Kelly and his son were
trimming fallen tree the other day,
near Derby, Conn, and the father,
seizing a limb and bending it, told the
boy to take the axe and cut it off. The
boy took aim, let drive, and cut off one
of his fathers fingers as well as any
surgeon could have done it.
The Mayor of Deadwood has noti-
fed parents to keep the boys at home
at night or to make themselves respon-
siblo for their appearance at home not
later than nine o'clock in the evening.
After that hour the police viii see that
the roaming sections of disconnected
families are cared for at public ex-
pense.
Seth Green states that success i'm
fish raising can not be acquired by the
reading of book any more than skill
in matchmaking can. Many facts can
be learned, but experience is needed to
enable one to raise fish. He recon-
mends that operations be commenced
on a small scale, and that the business
be extended as ones knowledge in
creases.
Farmer Plaud, of San Miguel, Cal,
hearing that his daughter, who was in
town, was about to elope with a rail-
road hand, drove home with her. Her
lover hired a fast horse, followed and
overlook the old man, and made him
give up the girl at the point Of his
pistol. The two went back to San
Miguel and Mr.. Plaud went home alone.
-CicUela7ad LeGder.
The Supreme Court of California
has made an important decision. It
has decided in the case of the estate of
Andre Briswalter that marriage to be
legal must be made public, and the
parties must live as husband and wife
''in the face of their neighbors. The
decision is considered to practically
dispose of the famous Sharon case
against Sarah Althea, for no pub
licity" was ever given TO the Sharon
Hill marriage.
"A Concord gentleman relates the
following interesting anecdote: Dur
ing the war Of the rebellion, while /
was in charge of telegraphing in Bos-
ton, ] went to Governor Andrews
house about midnight one night with
an important message. To my state
ment of my errand the Governors
good wife answered: You will always
find the Governor at his office ut the
State House until two o'clock in the
morning And we always did
Concord On NJ Monitor.
While celebrating the Fourth of
July in 1875, Thomas Hannigan, q Sing
Sing IN. " boy, was severely in
jured by the explosion Of soda-water
bottle full of powder. He lost the sight
of his right eye. and was badly cut on
the face and neck Now, after the lapse
of over eleven years, he has been re-
leved of piece Of bottle glass from
his lost eye. II is three-quarters of an
inch long, and quarter of an inch
wide 1t had been all the while inn
bedded on the upper side Of the upper
lid.
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